Desktop

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Windows ME Freeze

0 helpful
6 replies

by pfu920

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.
When I restart my computer, many times the screen freezes on the windows logo. I am currently using Windows ME, My system is a PIII with 128Mb, 30 Gb. Is there any way for me to stop this from happening or to make it occur less than 30% of the times I restart my computer?

6 replies

by dmiles

This may be caused by your video card,go to the manufacturer's web site and download the latest drivers,also your refresh rate may be set to high ,so check that.

by pfu920

All the video card drivers are up to date, but to no avail, it hasn't fixed the problem

by tbradley

Hit the escape key when the logo first pops up, and look at what information is displayed on the screen. Not only with ME, but 95/98 as well, there are some processes that must happen before the gui interface is launched, and the logo is just displayed to keep you from getting bored :)

Look to see if you have any unusual occurances happening with virus scans, or if the system is hanging up looking for a piece of hardware

Another hidden process is the registry scan that takes place before/during the boot process. A piece of your registry may be corrupt, and windows is hanging attempting to fix it.

in 95/98, you can boot to the safe mode command prompt, and run scanreg /fix to correct this problem, and then run scanregw when the gui starts. Not sure if ME has this feature, but I'm sure there is something equivalent.

Also turn off fast shutdown, as it has a nasty habit of damaging hardware registry entries, which brings you back full circle to the startup scan.

Hope this helps

by pfu920

I guess there was some type of conflict. I had installed a pci usb port when my motherboard already had usb ports integrated on it...

This discussion is closed to new replies.